President Donald Trump and his administration continued to assault the concept of due process this week, with Trump arguing that undocumented immigrants should not have the right to appear before a judge before deportation.
“We hope to get help from the courts because we are ready to go out and you can’t get to court for all these people,” Trump said. I said In an oval office on Tuesday. “It didn’t make sense. The system didn’t make sense, and I don’t think there’s anything to say about it.”
“We’ve got them out and the judge can’t say, ‘No, you have to go to court,'” Trump continued. “It’s going to take two years to court. If we’re not allowed to do it, we’re going to have a very dangerous country.”
The Trump administration is pursuing deportation programs through several different strategies. The beliefs of the rock The judicial department has little or no authority to suspend deportation after the government determines someone is eligible for removal.
in Social Media Posts On Monday, Trump said, “We can’t give everyone a trial because it takes 200 years without exaggeration to do so.”
If the Trump administration was really worried about the case backlog, it wouldn’t fire an immigration judge. that At least eight immigrant judges have been fired. On Tuesday, two dozen people have been resigned or fired since Trump’s second term began.
Vice President JD Vance I posted a similar comment Recently, on social media, which has been underestimating legitimate processes: “Ask people who are crying at the lack of an accurate process what they suggest to deal with accurately [former President Joe] Biden’s millions and millions of illegality. And with reasonable resources and the constraints of administrative judges, will their solutions allow us to deport at least millions of people a year? ”
Trump and Vance’s claim that legitimate processes can be sidelined if they are not compatible with government preference objectives, invert the entire point of legitimate processes. If the government cannot expel millions of people while ensuring that they have legitimate procedures, then Don’t It expels millions of people a year.
Other rhetorical trial balloons floating around by Trump administration officials and critics use the criminality of alleged immigration both personally and commonly.
Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border emperor,” spoke to reporters this morning about the incident with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a Salvador man who said three government officials were mistakenly sent to El Salvador’s most infamous prison, along with hundreds of other gang members. The Trump administration now refuses to return Abrego Garcia to the US, and has heardsay evidence or There is no evidence at all He must be a member of the MS-13 gang, human traffickers and terrorists.
“I’m going to have the DOJ claim this in court, but I think we’ve removed public safety threats, gang members and terrorists designated as terrorists from the United States, who have been deported twice by a federal judge,” Homan said. I said. “I think he got a fair enough process. He got more processes than Laken Riley had.”
Riley was a 22-year-old Georgia woman who was murdered in 2024 by illegal immigrants from Venezuela. Her murder became a rallying cry for hard-hit immigrant opponents.
In addition to the fact that Riley’s murder has nothing to do with the Abrego Garcia case, unless Homan thinks that Latinos are exchangeably liable for each other’s crimes, the non-Seaketour-Horman argument is that the government should lower itself to criminal actions in order to seek retaliation against criminals. It’s a discussion for less law and order, not more.
However, this is not a bug, but a feature of the Trump administration’s bad claims of faith about the false and legitimate process. Homan previously dismissed the American Civil Liberties Union for Immigration’s “know your rights” seminar, Proposed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D – NY) should be investigated by the Department of Justice to hold a similar webinar.
“They call it ‘know your rights’,” Homan said. I said. “I call it a ‘way to escape an arrest.’ ”
These types of comments underscore the importance of ensuring civil liberties for everyone, and how hostile the Trump administration is to the fundamental concept of constitutional order.
